Im having some trouble activating windows Vista Home Premium (Upgrade).
I recently upgraded my computer and replaced every part of my computer except
the hard drive. However, I couldnt load the sata drivers and I didnt have a
floppy disk so I just used the Windows vista CD I had and installed over my
previous installation of vista (the same copy). This cleared my entire hard
drive and I thought all it did was reinstall Home premium. When I went to
activate it said "This CD Key is already in use" and when I tried to enter
the CD Key again it said something along the lines of "this CD was not meant
for clean installations." In most cases I would contact technical support but
I'm afraid of getting charged $59. Any help please?

Use the telephone number supplied for activating Vista via phone. You will
not be charged for re-activating a system install that got accidentally
wiped out. You can do this as many times as you need to.

Bob S.


"James" <James@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Im having some trouble activating windows Vista Home Premium
> (Upgrade).
> I recently upgraded my computer and replaced every part of my computer
> except
> the hard drive. However, I couldnt load the sata drivers and I didnt have
> a
> floppy disk so I just used the Windows vista CD I had and installed over
> my
> previous installation of vista (the same copy). This cleared my entire
> hard
> drive and I thought all it did was reinstall Home premium. When I went to
> activate it said "This CD Key is already in use" and when I tried to enter
> the CD Key again it said something along the lines of "this CD was not
> meant
> for clean installations." In most cases I would contact technical support
> but
> I'm afraid of getting charged $59. Any help please?